A statement released by Reform UK read: “There are absolutely no circumstances in which Reform would ever do a pact with ...

The island hosts an American super-strategic airbase (meaning it easily handles heavy bombers and air tankers that can refuel ...

The island is named Diego Garcia, the biggest little island in the Indian Ocean's isolated Chagos Archipelago. Never heard of ...

The Chagos Islands deal has been hailed as necessary ... £90 million a year for 99 years to maintain control of the Diego Garcia military base. It also prevents Mauritius from "renting" the ...

The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called ”Footprint of Freedom,” is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos Island chain in the Indian Ocean. It is one of the most important and ...

The current deal involves Britain paying Mauritius £90 million a year for 99 years to maintain control of the US military ...

And the former army chief criticised a core part of the deal meant to protect the top secret joint US/UK airbase on Diego Garcia ... control of the Chagos Islands to the US, adding that it ...

A judge working for the International Court of Justice (ICJ) who ruled against the UK over the Chagos Islands is a former Chinese Government official. Xue Hanqin backed a majority verdict at the ...

weakening the strategically important base on Diego Garcia island. Ms Xue is a former Chinese Communist Party official, serving as director general of the department of treaty and law in China’s ...

Under the terms of this treaty the United Kingdom will agree that Mauritius is sovereign over the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia ... amongst the Falkland Islands community or others ...